I look at food, and I am appaled, just the thought of it makes me sick. I am just over 5ft. and weigh between 88-92lbs. Everyone keeps telling me to eat and that im way to thin, but i just dont see it or care. Im just not hungry. I have started coming up with reasons not to eat or I hide the food until i can throw it away later. Is that so bad? There is simply no interest in food, nor do i enjoy eating it. granted, I do eat, it is just on occasion and when no one is around. Does this mean anything or is everyone just being overly protective and naggy about how I look? *all honesty please*
It seems to me like you have the bigger problem with everyone around you trying to make you eat, than that you have the problem with eating as such - you said yourself, you do eat, but when no one is, well, forcing you to do so. And as far as your height to weight ratio is concerned, well, I'm definitely not the one to judge because I'm about the same as you are and like it or not, we are in the category of underweight people. How old are you? Have things been the same since you were a child?
I am almost 19. I have a pretty small framed family, but it has not always been this way. There was a time when i managed to get up to 99lbs, but well that one kinda freaked me out a bit. that was 4 or 5 years ago. I also loved food, adn ate almost non stop. And you are right I do not like how i am being forced to eat. Yet, at the same time, I just feel ackward when eating with people watching me. I kinda know how it all started though, but at the same time I dont really think it could be true. how old are you? and Do you purposly not eat?
You definitely could say I purposely don't eat all that much, but because I have a strong reason to - my stomach doesn't tolerate so many types of food and I gotten pretty traumatized with what happens when I accidentally eat something I'm not supposed to, like tomato or zillion other things. I had a burst stomach ulcer and since I'm 25 they don't know what really was the cause for all this, but now I have to avoid everything. But it's not like I have appetite, anyway.
WOW, that really sounds painful, and im the same way to an extent. I am intolerant to a bunc hof stuff, and I cant see the benifits of eating, especially with what happens if I eat anything. I have gotten used to not eating and no appetite tho, so I think it is fine. (Dr.s dont think so).How long have you been having stomach problems and no appetite? Have u ever been diagnosed or said to be anorexic or anything like that?
No, I'm not anorexic or anything, I simply can't eat certain types of food (that list is so long you definitely could mistake me for an anorexic :-)) Because when I do I get very very sick, in a really obvious, immediate ER way. So, that is completely different than being afraid of getting fat or something like that. My doctors and family would love nothing more than to see me gain a few kilos, but that's not gonna happen anytime soon.
But the problem that I have because of all these weird eating habits- and from what you said, the problem that you definitely will face with - is the lack of vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients. All the supplements are not enough to make up for what we are missing out, and that is what worries me the most.
But the problem that I have because of all these weird eating habits- and from what you said, the problem that you definitely will face with - is the lack of vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients. All the supplements are not enough to make up for what we are missing out, and that is what worries me the most.
I hear ya there. I'm so deficient in everything, the ER has a room with my name on it im there so much. I have been diagnosed and labled as anorexic, and it pisses me off so much, cuz everyone holds it over my head like it has something to do with everything. You said your family and doctors would love for you to gain a few kilos,(mine want me to gain about 10-15 pounds), what state do you live in? do you do anything to keep up with your vitimins and minerals?
I don't think I'm managing to keep up with all the vitamins I need, simply because I see how every flu gets me. And I'm getting more and more sick of the pills I have to take - from regular vitamin C all the way to large capsules that I need for controlling my stomach. The irony of the whole thing is that the pills that help me with stomach problems also block the absorption of B vitamins, so I have to take that also... list just goes on and on, like I'm 150 years old >;)
I am 46 years old, and I am not hungry for the last 18 years. At the same time, no pain and I take so many medicines and I do yoga regularly. What do I do?